Glenn Arbery, Wyoming Catholic College, on the Divine Comedy at The Imaginative Conservative.
"Not only does the Commedia take up and transform the classical heritage, giving a structural framework to the Christian imagination, but the dense embeddedness of its characters in historical time and place fills the pages with particular men and women, bad and good, whose situations in the thick of life most resemble our own. Reading the Commedia, generation after generation, helps sustain what is good in our civilization as it exposes whatever is false and cheap."
See Dante, "On World Government" from De Monarchia in Gateway to the Great Books (10 Vol., 1963) volume 7, and The Divine Comedy in Great Books of the Western World (first edition, 52 Vol., 1952) volume 21, (second edition, 60 Vol., 1990) volume 19.
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